Wander Over Yonder Animation

Now I can show off some of my wanderful animation here :P

My scenes begin when Wander is cutting wheat and making bread while Hater waits for toast.  The rest of Wander afterwards is all mine (feeding the animals, making bread again) and Hater panicking was someone else's job.

Drippy Run

Animation and compositing: Myself

Background: Michelle Henderson http://tengu-arts.deviantart.com/

'So hey, I can do this!'

Feck all updates lately since work has gotten hectic, so here's Wander to share his infinite wisdom.

Mochi Mochi! - Galway Film Fleadh

My student film ‘Mochi Mochi!’ has recently been selected for screening at this year’s Galway Film Fleadh which takes place later this month.  It is to be shown under the ‘shorts’ category so here’s a sneak peak at Shiro the Japanese rabbit as she ventures into her examination.

Congratulations to my other fellow colleagues who have also had their shorts selected.

Backgrounds - Mochi, Mochi!

Recently completed my final year film 'Mochi, Mochi'.  I'll probably post up some stills from the film later in the week, but for the time being here are some of the backgrounds done for the film.

Big Nose

I was watching some TV show (can't remember what it was) and noticed some woman with an absurdly large nose. Just jotted this down as a response to it. Also unwinding after animating and compositing all day.

Scene 65 - Final BG and Character Render

What can be considered a final background for my student film since Shiro is pretty static in this scene.  It's virtually the same as the previous style test only with the perspective corrected and less wonky.

All that's next is to animate the hand reaching for the rabbit cake in TV Paint.

Summit Fever Pencil Tests - Part #3

Part three of Mayberry's misadventure.

Scene 21 Final Colour

Scene 26 Clean Up

Scene 36 Clean Up

Scene 37 Final Colour

Scene 52 Pencil Test

Scene 52 Clean Up

And that's all the best work I've done on this film. :)

Summit Fever Pencil Tests - Part #2

Part two of pencil tests and clean ups of Mayberry's epic (and ironically disastrous) climb to the top.

Scene 12 Pencil Test

Scene 12 Clean Up

Scene 16 Pencil Test

Scene 16 Clean Up

Scene 16 Final Colour

More to come soon.

Summit Fever Pencil Tests - Part #1

So finally, after eight months of hard work we reached the top of the summit.  We have our film finished and ready to be submitted into a number of festivals.  Figured I should show some of the pencil tests and clean ups in TV Paint here on the blog now that I have some spare time.  I'll need to make a show reel in the next couple of days.

Scene 02 Rough

Scene 02 Clean Up

Scene 06 Rough

Scene 06 Clean Up

I wil have more uploaded later on.

Scene 16 (Retake)

Fixed up parts of this scene before going into inbetweens.

Sarco, the Mummy Cat

Finished at last.  Work on this was slow due to other obligations.  Probably not the best of my abilities but for a first with a tablet it's not bad I guess.

Research Sketches

Some sketches of mountain climbers for animation research:

Lilly Woods Model Sheet

Finally got round to cleaning up this orthographic sheet of my Lilly character:

She's from a script writing project I did a year back with a couple of friends where we developed a ten episode cartoon series.  The project was entitled 'Lilly's Zombie Bunny' and was about the random mishaps of a girl who has the ability to see ghosts around her home town which causes her to be treated like a black sheep by other people.  Until she meets a smart-ass zombie rabbit named Ozmand who's on a mission from the underworld and the two of them end up in all kinds of screwball events you can expect from a cartoon.

It sounds like a bizzare concept but the mock-pitch we did with the Irish Film Board was highly positive so I'd like to keep this project warm for another day.

The main reason I finished this up was because I applied for a character design job (fingers crossed) and wanted to have something like this on my portfolio for their consideration.  I'd also like to try modeling her on 3ds Max sometime.

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Dug's Special Mission Drawings

Dug is my favorite character from UP (2009), so on my birthday last March I pretty much drew this for myself:

"Master will be most displeased to learn there's no more cake because of you!"

Kinda sad, I know.  But for whatever reason I decided to stick it up on the billboard in the animation room.  And as we all know, everybody loves Dug so this drawing attracted a lot of attention.  Even another student from the other group in the course (Abby I think her name is?) asked me if I was planning on doing another one of these drawings.  I can't really say no to a girl, so:

"Look Alpha!  I finally made him my prisoner!"

Only thing about putting these on the billboard is that everybody loved the drawings so much they apparently wanted to follow my thread and stick up all their drawings with pop-culture references on it.  There was all sorts from Duke Nukem, troll and procrastinating student drawings to cover up my Dug drawings, which kinda got out of hand!
But what was nice is that Abby put a small little note beside my drawings saying "These make me glad. :D "
I might do another sequel to my Dug's Special Mission drawings for her sometime. :)

My apologies for the crappy quality of these by the way.  They were too big to fit into the scanner so I had to take photographs instead.